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Taliban: A Bibliometric Investigation, Javid Ahmad Dar, Ufaira Yaseen Shah, Fayaz Ahmad Loan, Aadil Bashir, Manzoor Hussain

Library Philosophy and Practice (e-journal)

The primary objective of this study is to identify the global research output on Taliban during the period of 25 years spanning from 1996-2020. Specific objectives are to analyze the distribution of literature, publication trends, authorship patterns, institutional productivity, collaboration networks, and prolific funding agencies. The data was harvested from the Web of Science Core Collection. A total of 614 records were retrieved on Taliban having 4416 total citations. The highest output was recorded in 2002, with a share of 7.83% of overall literature. The citation pattern depicted a fluctuating, the highest share being received in the year 2002 (14.47%), …

Research Productivity And Citation Impact Of S.C. Sharma As Seen Through The Scopus Database, N Vasantha Raju, N.S. Harinarayana

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This study presented the bibliometric analysis of Sharma’s research publications as found in the Scopus database. The study presents the publication profile of Sharma in terms of the number of papers published, top journals where Sharma has published his research papers frequently, subject area, author collaborations, and institutional collaboration and so on. The study also analyzes the research impact through citations count, highly cited papers and h-index. VOSviewer, a software tool for constructing and visualizing bibliometric networks, was used to visualize the co-author collaborations, country collaborations and keyword analysis. A comparative analysis of the Scopus and the Google Scholar indicates …

Mapping Of Civil Engineering Research Output At Iit Bombay During 2006-2016, Rasmita Mohanty Mrs, Pushpanjali Jena Dr.

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This paper evaluates research output of Department of Civil Engineering, IIT Bombay for the period 2006-2016. An analysis of 734 documents pertaining to IIT Bombay as reflected in Scopus Database has been made based on Scientometric principles . This study aims to find out year wise growth of publications, cumulative growth and annual growth rate, types of documents, preferred source for publication and degree of collaboration.

Scientometric Mapping Of Research Output Of Nirf First Ranked Institute Of India: Iisc, Bangalore, Satish Kumar, Senthilkumar R.

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The study is aimed to investigate the scientific research productivity of India’s NIRF first ranked higher academic & research institute, Indian Institute of Science (IISc), Bangalore for a period of 05 years during 2014-2018. A total of 12,130 research papers were retrieved as SCIE publication from WoS bibliographical database and analyzed. The study is focused to find out the year wise institutional contribution in research, compound annual growth rate, areas of interest, collaborating institutions and countries, mode of publications, research funding agencies, prolific journals, prolific authors, authorship pattern, degree of collaborations etc. Different scientometric tools and techniques were used to …

Scientific Publications Of Goa University As Reflected In Web Of Science Database During 2008 – 2017, Dr. Jayaprakash G. Hugar

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Web of Science is a major citation database which provides access to the world’s leading scholarly literature. The University of Goa is the only premier higher education institutes which cater to the educational needs of the Goa. The present study evaluates the research productivity of University of Goa-based on the data collected from Web of Science over a period of ten years from 2008 to 2017. This article studied the publication pattern, trend, collaboration with different organizations, institutions, R&D Centres and different nations. Top funding agencies in Science and Technology field research performance of faculty members of Goa University in …

Major Trends In Lis Research: A Bibliometric Analysis, Oluwaseyi H. Wusu, Nneka G. Lazarus

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This study provides an overview of the Library and Information Science (LIS) research from 1980 through 2017. We employ bibliometric and text mining analyses on a sample of 500 most cited articles to examine the impact of factors such as number of authors, enhanced institutions, document types and keywords on the number of citations that they received. We also investigate major trends in LIS research literature including contribution of different countries, variations across publication years and identifying active research areas and major journal outlets. This study serves as a resource for future studies on LIS trends demonstrating the attributes of …

Knowledge Of Electronic Databases As Predictors Research Productivity Of Academic Staff In Nigerian Private Universities, Adetomiwa Basiru, Oshiotse Andrew Okwilagwe, Emmanuel Layi Adebayo

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The quality of teaching, research and community service of lecturers coupled with their publication in any university system depend on the quality of the electronic database they use. This study therefore, investigated the knowledge of electronic databases as predictors of research productivity of academic staff in private universities in South-west, Nigeria.

The descriptive survey research design of the correlational type was adopted. A total of 1656 academic staff in in the 21 private universities were sampled. Stratified random sampling technique was used to select 60% academic staff across the ranks in 21 private universities. Data were analysed using descriptive statistics, …